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" The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya. "

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" My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. "

" When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. "

" You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. "

" What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet. "

" You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. "

" Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny. "

" Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though. "

" I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead. "

" Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred. "

" Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world. "

" I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world. "

" Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations. "

" I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls. "

" People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh. "

" I'm as clean as a whistle. "

" I've always been into improvisation. "

" No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in. "

" A lot of prophets have gone to jail. "

" I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life. "

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" I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime. "

" The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil. "

" Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. "

" To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place. "

" I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight. "

" The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself. "

" Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say. "

" I'm a hybrid. "

" We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out. "

" Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya. "

" Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me. "